Curriculum of the school district of Los Angeles: better food

School District of the nation's second largest prepares for the start of fall semester student, critics have been working some healthier menu items soon to be found in the canteens throughout Los Angeles sampling.

The Los Angeles Times reports that fruit and vegetables canned and frozen are replaced with farmers market fresh salads, tostadas and hummus made from scratch; and chicken nuggets, pizza and corn dogs pushed out tamales, roasted chicken and vegetarian stew pozole.

By Jamie Oliver, despite overwhelming resistance Council LAUSD school to host of ABC's The Food Revolution, for the implantation of a true seed of truth about problems and solutions with the lunch program, school of Los Angeles. And if the fans of chef of the controversial approaches or not (pouring 57 tons of "sugar" on a school bus), opened a lot of eyes to a harsh reality: Los Angeles sick children themselves are eating.

Executive chef Mark Baida LAUSD has been hard at work preparing wine tasting for 50 students and a handful of parents outside of downtown Newman where 225,000 meals are prepared for students to the area every day. Feedback from students helped form the menu items that are created not only to be healthier, but tastier than fruit preserves and frozen vegetables, sugary.

Moving towards healthier options offered by the school district vouches for healthier students? Not at all, but it's a start. An expensive: Budgeting for meals is up to almost $ 1 for every meal (17 cents) and almost 20 million dollars of the 120 million dollar budget will be awarded for fruits and vegetables are waiting to new regulations expected from USDA next summer. Calories are reduced as is sodium count and the absence of chocolate and strawberries sugar-sweetened milk will reduce sugar intake in some cases, more than half.

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Tags: farmers market, Jamie Oliver, LAUSD, school lunch program, food revolution

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